India enters into an era of 'Clean, Green Highways', with the successful Technology Transfer titled “Bio-Bitumen via Pyrolysis: From Farm Residue to Roads”, an indigenous innovation developed by CSIR‑Central Road Researc...

• Bio-Bitumen via Pyrolysis is an indigenous technology converting agricultural crop residue (rice/wheat straw) into a renewable binder that partially replaces petroleum-based bitumen in road construction.
• Co-developed by CSIR-Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), New Delhi and CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP), Dehradun under the Ministry of Science & Technology.
• Strategically important for UPSC: intersects circular economy, stubble-burning mitigation, import substitution (~₹25,000–40,000 cr), and net-zero infrastructure.